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If you find the Safely Remove Icon in the Windows Taskbar (lower right corner of the screen) you should be able to click on it and then click on the Nuvi entry that will be listed there. The Safely Remove icon is the one that looks like a small USB connector with the green checkmark in the lower right.

You may need to click on the small up arrow at the left end of the taskbar to see the Safely Remove Icon.

Thanks, I have look watt you sad but it’s not there , I know where to remove a drive safety or USB etc. the question is way the 3490 don’t appears on the to remove safety I don’t know if is because the ( MTP (Media Transfer Protocol )

For some reason, I do not get the "Safely remove" option with my nuvi 855 on my laptop (Windows Vista 64). But if I go to MyComputer, and right click on the nuvi drive and the SD slot drive, I do have the "Eject" option. So I use that.

Nuvi devices work in MTP (Media Transfer Protiocol) mode by default. They come in MTP mode from the box. They revert to MTP mode after factory reset.

In MTP mode there's no need for any "Safely Remove..." commands. You can disconnect an MTP device from the computer at any time (as long as you are not interrupting a transfer operation). It will result in no adverse effects on the device.

Not all files stored internally on Nuvi will be visible in MTP mode. You have to manually switch the device to MSC (Mass Storage Class) mode to see everything.

If you switch the device to MSC mode, then you will have to remember to do "Safely Remove..." before you disconnect it from the computer. But, again, this is only necessary (and available) with Nuvi is MSC mode.

Hold on there. :D Only *some* Nuvi's default to MTP mode. I thought it was all of the 2012 models, had an e-mail from Rich Owings recently who says his 2495 defaulted to a USB disk.

I don't have a 2012 model myself - my newest Nuvi is a 3790 and it is a Mass Storage device. I would like to see a little more clarity regarding which models are natively configured for MTP since it would help with answering questions we see here.

I don't pay much attention to the "safely remove hardware" notification any more. The primary reason it's there is that sometimes there might be a delay in writing data to the USB device, but it's generally not much of a delay. I just make sure that windows explorer, and any other application that might be reading or writing to the nuvi, is closed, then wait a couple minutes for any read/write activity to finish up before I unplug.

I might be living dangerously, but in more than 10 years of doing this in XP/Vista/7, I have yet to corrupt anything.